1887 GRACE DARLING, her Brother GEORGE ALEXANDER Darling receiving INK STAND

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1887 GRACE DARLING, her Brother GEORGE ALEXANDER Darling receiving INK STAND
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1887; Two fine Rare & Unique letters written and signed by Grace Darlings Brother, George Alexander Darling at Seahouses, Chathill to the solicitor in Alnwick acting for the late Thomasin Darling his Sister, in acknowledgement of receiving money and the marble INKSTAND made by their father from the wreck of the Forfarshire, left to him in Thomasins Will to be forwarded to him by his Nephew Robert Darling.
The second image shows the original legal copy& part of Thomasins Will for clarification of the gift of the Inkstand, this item is not included in the sale!
GEORGE ALEXANDER DARLING [brother of GD]
Born 14 August 1819; died 20 April 1903, age 83
Twin brothers
WILLIAM BROOKS DARLING [brother of GD]
Born 14 August 1819; died 24 Dec 1870, age 51
GEORGE ALEXANDER
A month before his 15th birthday George moved to Newcastle to become apprenticed as a ship’s carpenter. Along with his twin brother and his father he famously rowed all the way from the Farnes to Newcastle. In 1840 George married Jane Martha Hall from Newcastle. They had thirteen children of which ten were girls but not all survived to adulthood.
George outlived his siblings by many years. After his sister Thomasin’s day he became the surviving spokesman for the family legend. He owned the original coble used in the rescue; it is thanks to him it has survived.
THOMASIN DARLING [sister of Grace Darling]
Born 7 August 1808; died 17 August 1886, age 78
Twin sisters MARY ANN DARLING [sister of Grace Darling ]
Born 7 August 1808; died 31 August 1843, age 35
THOMASIN was named after her mother, so was presumably the first twin to be born. She became known as ‘Sister’ to the family. Thomasin was born with a cleft lip of which she was self-conscious. From an early age she declared that she would never attract a man nor marry because of it, and she never did. When quite young she set herself up as a dressmaker, opening a business in Bamburgh.
Although she was seven years older than Grace, Thomasin was Grace’s favourite sister. The pair became very close and wrote to each other all the time. Much of Grace’s last days were spent in her sister’s company. After father William died in 1865, Thomasin turned his house into a boarding house, taking in visitors. Even forty years after the event, exaggeration about details of the rescue continued, causing Thomasin in her old age to write her own account: ‘Grace Darling, Her True Story’.
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1887; Two fine Rare & Unique letters written and signed by Grace Darlings Brother, George Alexander Darling at Seahouses, Chathill to the solicitor in Alnwick acting for the late Thomasin Darling his Sister, in acknowledgement of receiving money and the marble INKSTAND made by their father from the wreck of the Forfarshire, left to him in Thomasins Will to be forwarded to him by his Nephew Robert Darling.The second image shows the original legal copy& part of Thomasins Will for clarification of the gift of the Inkstand, this item is not included in the sale! GEORGE ALEXANDER DARLING [brother of GD] Born 14 August 1819; died 20 April 1903, age 83Twin brothersWILLIAM BROOKS DARLING [brother of GD]Born 14 August 1819; died 24 Dec 1870, age 51GEORGE ALEXANDER A month before his 15th birthday G
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GRACE DARLING
EAN
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Country
England
Family Surname
Darling
City/Town/Village/Place
Seahouses
England County
Northumberland
Era
1887
Document Type
Manuscript Letter